ok, thanks. For the most part, I like scrivener as a writing environment (although I'm still fighting with it) but I think I'll export to epub with it and clean some things up in Sigil and then convert with calibre before I'm ready to publish.

ok, thanks. For the most part, I like scrivener as a writing environment (although I'm still fighting with it) but I think I'll export to epub with it and clean some things up in Sigil and then convert with calibre before I'm ready to publish.

Convert ePub to mobi with Calibre?? I would recommend using Kindlepreview/kindlegen to convert to mobi - it's free(download to your computer) and the official/certified process used by Amazon to convert ePub to their format. You *may* get other errors introduced when you use a 3rd party conversion.

You've convinced me. I've got kindlegen downloaded, but apparently I need the previewer to be able to convert. That's allegedly downloading now, although it's taking forever to download. I'll see how that works.

btw, I know there's an epub validator that you can use online; is there a mobi one, or do just have to hope that kindlegen and the previewer make a clean mobi file that Amazon will accept?

Oh and "does it matter" - YES. It matters. You pay a delivery fee that is based on the size of the book on every order you sell at some places (like Amazon). But... at 3mb your less then 1/2 the size of my Omnibus and its not that much money.

Oh and "does it matter" - YES. It matters. You pay a delivery fee that is based on the size of the book on every order you sell at some places (like Amazon). But... at 3mb your less then 1/2 the size of my Omnibus and its not that much money.

CreateSpace LOADS the costs on and they aren't very honest or clever about it.

Example: My first book is 775K words and their estimate based on size was
₤6.10 but at the end of the process that had become a minimum list price of ₤11.
How do you expect to sell a Paperback at Hardback prices?
I got back an email stating that was the minimum price they could make it for.

However, when I ordered a copy just for myself it was ₤6.10 plus postage.

I don't know who does their marketing but they obviously never heard of 'Less is More'.

CreateSpace LOADS the costs on and they aren't very honest or clever about it.

Example: My first book is 775K words and their estimate based on size was
₤6.10 but at the end of the process that had become a minimum list price of ₤11.
How do you expect to sell a Paperback at Hardback prices?
I got back an email stating that was the minimum price they could make it for.

However, when I ordered a copy just for myself it was ₤6.10 plus postage.

I don't know who does their marketing but they obviously never heard of 'Less is More'.

Actually I was talking about the delivery fee that amazon charges on ebooks... has nothing to do with create space.